Accurate relativistic many-body calculations of van der Waals coefficients C8 and C10 for alkali-metal dimers
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We consider long-range interactions between two alkali-metal atoms in their respective ground states. We extend the previous relativistic many-body calculations of C6 dispersion coefficients @Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3589 ~1999!# to higher-multipole coefficients C8 and C10 . Special attention is paid to usually omitted contribution of core-excited states. We calculate this contribution within relativistic random-phase approximation and demonstrate that for heavy atoms core excitations contribute as much as 10% to the dispersion coefficients. We tabulate results for both homonuclear and heteronuclear dimers and estimate theoretical uncertainties. The estimated uncertainties for C8 coefficients range from 0.5% for Li2 to 4% for Cs2 . © 2003 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1578052#
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